pallbearer
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After Kennedy’s assassination, Whittaker was a pallbearer at the funeral in St. Patrick’s Cathedral in New York.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 15, 2026
I’ve been a pallbearer like 15 times or something.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 21, 2025
Showing how much he was part of the drive to stop slavery, the Duke of Gloucester was a pallbearer at the funeral of the great abolitionist, William Wilberforce, in 1833.
From BBC ● Oct. 27, 2023
Kara-Murza had been a friend of Sen. John McCain and was a pallbearer at his 2018 funeral.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 17, 2023
And greatest is Rostam—a warhorse to Neptune, a pallbearer of the Nazarene.
From "The Many Assassinations of Samir, the Seller of Dreams" by Daniel Nayeri
Just under two years later and both Ewie and Frans would be pallbearers at Hansie's funeral following his shock death in a plane crash.
From BBC ● Jul. 30, 2025
It was lifted by pallbearers and carried into the church.
From New York Times ● Nov. 20, 2024
Four pallbearers carried the coffin from the church after the funeral and they were followed by Payne’s parents and Cole.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 20, 2024
But five months later, Davy Kirkwood, an audio engineer and one of the pallbearers at Dio’s funeral, also died.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 13, 2024
Only Maniac and the man from the funeral home and the six pallbearers and two men off to the side, smoking cigarettes and leaning on a little hole-digging tractor that made Maniac think of something.
From "Maniac Magee" by Jerry Spinelli
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